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Updated FR Excerpt and Link Only or Deny Posting List due to Copyright Complaints
April 5, 2004 | Jim Robinson

Posted on 04/05/2004 3:53:42 PM PDT by Jim Robinson

Edited on 05/27/2014 11:31:00 AM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]

Note: Don't post anything at all from the Las Vegas Review Journal or anything from organizations run by Stevens Media, LLC or RightHaven, LLC until the lawsuit brought against us by them is resolved.

Here's an updated alphabetical list of the sites that have complained about copyright violations thus far. The posting program will only allow excerpts and or deny posting where designated from the following sites:

These sites must be excerpted and linked only [300 words or less, 1/2 the words or less for short articles]:

All McClatchy sources must be excerpted and linked.

These publishers have asked us not to allow any material at all to be posted to FR:

05/06/04 -

Received another letter from Gannett Publications, publisher of USAToday, and several other newspapers. Due to contractual arrangements they have with third-party content providers, they have denied our request to allow posting of excerpts. They will only allow the posting of titles and links.

Please do not post full text or even excerpts from the following Gannett Web sites:

GANNETT NEWSPAPERS ON THE WEB:

We will eventually add a link to this list from our posting program. In the meantime, you can find it by searching on "copyright list."


In addition to all of the above, do not post articles written by Maralyn Lois Polak per her copyright complaint. Her column usually appears on WorldNetDaily.

Also, do not post images from Corbis or Getty.

Thanks,

Jim

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New York Times must be excerpted.

All material from the Associated Press must be excerpted regardless of source (very brief excerpts). AP photos are not allowed.

Photographs, pictures, images, graphs etc may not be posted if the websites are on the lists or added in any of the posts below.

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To: Lead Moderator
And we're gonna pull it. For that article, the best you can do is headline and link. And if you keep reposting it after the others here pull it, you are going to lose your account.

Fine.

I'm not a Lawyer, I'm a Mutual Fund salesman. I respect the FR Mods.

I'll post it from the CS Monitor, without the FR References

301 posted on 05/22/2004 2:12:42 AM PDT by OrthodoxPresbyterian (We are Unworthy Servants; We have only done Our Duty)
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To: OrthodoxPresbyterian
Gannett's lawyers said titles and links for us, only. If you would like to pick up the tab for lawyers to fight it, that might be an option. Otherwise, nope.

It looks like the article as published on CSMonitor would be ok. However, this time do it without being a complete jerk to the volunteers who were merely doing their job. They don't need that, and I am not going to make them have to take it.

Thanks, LM

302 posted on 05/22/2004 2:14:46 AM PDT by Lead Moderator
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To: Lead Moderator

Just wondering with No hostility at all. Do you read the WHOLE thread before responduing? I had a question/comment a few posts back.


303 posted on 05/22/2004 2:32:13 AM PDT by JLO
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To: Lead Moderator; Admin Moderator; Jim Robinson
Gannett's lawyers said titles and links for us, only. If you would like to pick up the tab for lawyers to fight it, that might be an option. Otherwise, nope. It looks like the article as published on CSMonitor would be ok. However, this time do it without being a complete jerk to the volunteers who were merely doing their job. They don't need that, and I am not going to make them have to take it. Thanks, LM

Look, I knew about LA Times and Wash Post issues, it's fronted on the FR HomePage.

I had no idea that the Army Times were under the same Regs and got a little annoyed that my Posts were being Pulled. I apologize for my misunderstanding.

That said, my attitude towards Iraq is that the place is a snake-pit, like most of the Middle East. They were probably involved in the original WTC bombing, and they probably trained some terrorists at the Salman Pak box-cutter-hijacking camp. Bad people, and I'm glad we took them out (I was opposed to Iraq War II, until I heard about Salman Pak).

But now that it's done, I just want us to get OUT. Biblical Justice is about Punishing the Offender, not trying to Re-Construct the World. Once we've Punished the Offenders, I think we should just Go Home (that's a very classic Old Conservative attitude, and I stand by it).

Bring 'em home by Christmas... let the Reserves get back to their Wives and Families. Not to sound Cynical, the Sunnis and Shi'ites can kill eachother without our help -- they've done so for 1,000 years, and I can buy my Gasoline from either one. They WANT to sell Oil to us, no matter who controls the region -- it's the only thing they have. But Johnnny in America needs his Daddy, not 6,000 miles away.

That's my perspective, it's entirely Old Conservative, and I intend to Post it. But next time, I'll respect the Copyright Regs the Mods have to deal with.

I'll post the CS Monitor Article with bibliographic Links -- LINKS AND HEADLINES ONLY.

Thanks for the explanation, OP.

304 posted on 05/22/2004 2:37:04 AM PDT by OrthodoxPresbyterian (We are Unworthy Servants; We have only done Our Duty)
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To: JLO

That sounds like a very good question to me, JLO, but you need to ask the Moderators or someone who posts articles a lot.

I don't post the articles so am not as informed. I'm just a 'read the thread and write a comment' kind of a FReeper!!


305 posted on 05/22/2004 9:58:36 PM PDT by potlatch ( Medals do not make a man. Morals do.)
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To: potlatch

I tried. Read #304 too.


306 posted on 05/22/2004 10:19:20 PM PDT by JLO
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To: potlatch

Hey, me too. Usually don't post aticles. Mostly respond. But, doesn't it gall you, if folks can't post articles already 'out there'?

I have already notified the Lead Moderator, several times. No response.


307 posted on 05/22/2004 10:35:15 PM PDT by JLO
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To: Jim Robinson

You would think the Idaho Statesman would appreciate being discussed.


308 posted on 05/23/2004 8:03:16 AM PDT by Delphinium
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To: JLO

Yes, it is irritating and I think Free Republic is being 'picked on', but it looks like we will have to put up with it.

I'm sure it is a 'political' thing. Guess the moderators have had so much mail about it that they gave up??


309 posted on 05/23/2004 8:13:53 PM PDT by potlatch ( Medals do not make a man. Morals do.)
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To: Jim Robinson
Jim,

Thanks for the list of Gannett papers. Now I know what papers not to read on line, let alone purchase.

311 posted on 05/26/2004 6:02:50 AM PDT by b4its2late
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To: All

Added New York Post to the excerpt only list.


312 posted on 05/26/2004 5:08:50 PM PDT by Jim Robinson
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To: Jim Robinson
That list keeps getting longer and longer all the time.
Am I correct in assuming it's primarily commercial media outlets?
I would think non-commercial Think Tanks (Cato, Heritage, etc. etc.) would be less inclined to limit access to their articles.
313 posted on 05/26/2004 5:17:41 PM PDT by Willie Green (Go Pat Go!!!)
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I have NOT read all 300 items here, so if this has already been discussed to death I apologize.

I do not understand how individual papers etc. can act as though they are above national copyright laws. Copyrights provide for fair usage through excerpting for criticism. Of course anyone can sue anyone for anything, and I can understand that the hosts of Free Republic certainly have the very understandable right not to want to get pulled into lawsuits, but it should be made VERY clear that legally these newspapers and such are simply engaging in blackmail when they threaten legal action over fair use excerpts.

They're counting on Free Republic and other similar organs to simply fold rather than have to fight in court.

As noted, the folks at FR provide a wonderful forum and service for us and users have no right to demand they also lay their butts on line in court, but I would hope that perhaps the FR folks would refuse to act as censors over small and clearly legal fair use excerpts. The ire of these sources is probably mainly focused on the reprinting of full articles.

A good battle response by FR might be to focus on those sources that are playing this blackmail game and prominently display/advertise/post the fact that those sources ARE trying to forbid free speech in violation of federally recognized copyright standards. Maybe a few of them might be embarassed enough to pull back on their "no excerpts" demands.

Michael J. McFadden
Author of "Dissecting Antismokers' Brains"
http://www.Antibrains.com


314 posted on 05/28/2004 5:37:33 PM PDT by Cantiloper (http://www.Antibrains.com)
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To: Jim Robinson

Bumping this again! Thanks for updating it!


315 posted on 06/08/2004 11:41:32 AM PDT by Salvation (†With God all things are possible.†)
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To: Jim Robinson
I don't know what's worse. These sites demanding us not link or excerpt from their sites now or in a year them begging us to come back due to their extremely low web traffic.
316 posted on 06/08/2004 11:46:42 AM PDT by Hillarys Gate Cult (Proud member of the right wing extremist Neanderthals.)
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To: Jim Robinson

God forbid their readers should have a place to criticize them that will be heard beyond their editorial wastebaskets. They obviously can't stand the heat.


317 posted on 06/08/2004 12:39:57 PM PDT by PsyOp (When you pull the pin, Mr. Grenade is no longer your friend.)
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To: Jim Robinson
Nursing Spectrum?
318 posted on 06/15/2004 4:24:42 PM PDT by L.N. Smithee (Just because I don't think like you doesn't mean I don't think for myself)
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To: Jim Robinson

IT is clearly time for a new lawsuit jim.
the fairness doctrine is clearly being sunk, one ship at a time.

Perhaps Attorney General Ashcroft would be interested in enforcing the right to post and discuss in their entirety all articles PUBLISHED by newspapers, magazines and such...

WHAT other blogs are getting in trouble for reporting on the news as it is reported by the news?

We only lost the last time, because the clinktons were working against us, to shut us up. That ruling from the times back a few years ago... can it be appealled to a higher court?


319 posted on 06/15/2004 4:43:12 PM PDT by Robert_Paulson2 (the madridification of our election is now officially underway.)
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To: Jeff Head

nope... they are just cockroaches, running from the light of day.


320 posted on 06/15/2004 4:45:38 PM PDT by Robert_Paulson2 (the madridification of our election is now officially underway.)
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